Default Apps 2025
Inspired by a recent listen to the Hemispheric Views podcast I set about creating a list of my default apps as I start 2025. I wanted to catalog these and then revisit them at the end of the year to see how my usage has changed. I am doing something similar with my homelab setup as I way to get more insight into what my day to day working environment looks like.
If you are looking for more Default Apps lists, Rob Knight has put together a page great curated list here
Default Apps
- 📨 Mail Client: Spark
- 📮 Mail Server: Fastmail
- 📝 Notes: Drafts
- ✅ To-Do: Doing
- 📷 Photo Shooting: iPhone 15
- 🎨 Photo Management: Photos
- 📆 Calendar: Fantastical
- 📁 Cloud File Storage: iCloud
- 📖 RSS: NetNewsWire
- 🚀 Launcher: Raycast
- 🙍🏻♂️ Contacts: Apple Contacts
- 🌐 Browser: Zen (Safari on iOS)
- 💬 Chat: iMessage, Discord
- 🔖 Bookmarks: Linkwarden
- 📑 Read It Later: Safari Reading List (probably need something more robust)
- 📜 Word Processing: Drafts
- 📈 Spreadsheets: Excel (mainly because of work)
- 📊 Presentations: Powerpoint (ditto for work)
- 🛒 Shopping Lists: Apple Notes (shared with family)
- 🍴 Meal Planning: None 🚫
- 💰 Budgeting and Personal Finance: MoneyWiz
- 📰 News: None 🚫 (at this point in time I'd rather stick my head in a beehive and yell)
- 🎵 Music: Apple Music (jumped mostly off of Spotify late 2024 due to lack of good discovery)
- 🎤 Podcasts: Overcast
- 🔐 Password Management: Apple Passwords (moving away from 1password slowly)
- 🌤️ Weather: Apple Weather
- 🔎 Search: DuckDuckGo
- 🧭 Maps: Apple Maps
- 🧑💻 Code Editor: VSCode
- ✈️ VPN: Tailscale